My locations are a bit hazy and was wondering the travel times between

santa cruz, cupertino and paso robles?

thanks for the help

From Santa Cruz to Cupertino or vice-versa the ride should be less than an hour, maybe 35-55 minutes depending on how fast you drive and the traffic (expect long delays if its a weekend). From the bay to Paso Robles, if you take the 101, it should be about 2.5 hours give or take depending on when/what day you leave.

ah much appreciated, trying to plan a trip but was wondering if it'd be more worth while just to fly to san jose and drive up north to napa instead of goign downwards to paso robles.

were you asking about Santa Cruz the city or the Santa Cruz mountain wineries? because that's different, well, it's different in that it will probably take less time to travel from cupertino to wineries in the mountains as opposed to the city of Santa Cruz itself, depending which wineries you visit. My guess is Dave Tong or Stefania can chime in on this and be a bit more accurate about those details.

Good luck on your trip planning.

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Originally posted by g-man:
ah much appreciated, trying to plan a trip but was wondering if it'd be more worth while just to fly to san jose and drive up north to napa instead of goign downwards to paso robles.

Where are you thinking of flying into? Oakland? San Francisco?

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Originally posted by tanglenet:

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Originally posted by g-man:
ah much appreciated, trying to plan a trip but was wondering if it'd be more worth while just to fly to san jose and drive up north to napa instead of goign downwards to paso robles.

Where are you thinking of flying into? Oakland? San Francisco?

san jose actually

San Jose makes sense if you want to visit those places. Flying into San Jose and driving to Oakland or SF is about 1 hour of driving time (not in rush hour).

If you want to go to Napa or Sonoma, fly into Oakland (Jet Blue out of JFK). If you plan on visiting SF, fly into SFO or Oakland. You can take BART from either airport to SF.

Without traffic (depending on time of day) Oakland / SFO is 45 to 1 hour to either Napa / Sonoma. 2 hours if in rush hour traffic.

What's in Santa Cruz, besides my alma mater, UCSC?

ridge montebello =)

cupertino to be exact tho

so looks like a bit north of santa cruz.

I've never been there, so Mr. Tong will have to address driving times.

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Originally posted by g-man:
ridge montebello =)

cupertino to be exact tho

so looks like a bit north of santa cruz.

It's actually "over the hill" from Santa Cruz. I visited Ridge a couple of times on work trips in the mid 90s, and it's about a half hour (assuming clear traffic) from downtown San Jose, and about 40 minutes from downtown Santa Cruz. You can probably find a map online, but it's on the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountain range, at the far western edge of Cupertino (home of Apple Computer), up about five miles of windy mountain road. A pretty drive, and there are some great views of the South Bay.

g-man,

If you drive north towards Oakland, we're going to open a bottle, right?

A lot of the Santa Cruz Mountain Wineries are only open on the weekend.

Sounds like you have Ridge picked out. Any others you're set on, or would you like suggestions?

I would guess a good number of Paso Robles wineries are open during the week.

http://www.scmwa.com/wineries.htm

Yeah, you can do Paso Robles midweek, no problem. Many of the wineries down there are geared up to take walk-ins.

As Wes said, most of the SCM wineries are only open weekends.
If you can make it for a passport weekend that's your best bet.
However if you're coming for the Monte Bello barrel tasting on Mar 8/9 that's not a passport weekend.

The best thing you can do is list the wineries that you want to visit and then we can help you structure an itinerary.

ah yea, was reading about the passport thing, it sounded incredible,

acutally I was thinking about just swing there mid may, for the may 17-18 ridge montebello tasting.

My little sister is graduating from college and I figured it be a fun graduation present.

Hug Cellars, Ridge and Stefania are the only wineries I know in the region.

Have another friend that wants to visit napa too, so I'm trying to see how the iternary would work out =)

I like the sig Dave, very helpful